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With her caustic wit and singular charm, DCI Vera Stanhope leads her team as they face a series of captivating murder mysteries set against the breathtaking Northumberland landscape.

A brood of fire-breathing dragons emerges from the earth and begins setting everything ablaze, establishing dominance over the planet.

When a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface.

In mid-19th century Northumberland, Hannah Boyle is left with the family of Matthew Thornton, the man her dying mother claims fathered her. Ill-treated by Thornton's bitter and vindictive wife Anne, who views Hannah only as evidence of her husband's infidelity, she is married off to the village butcher, whose waspish mother torments her further. But through her patience, intelligence and strength, she wins her freedom and the man she loves.

When 19-year-old Adam agrees to do a day's driving for his mum's gangster boyfriend Peter, it takes him on a 24-hour journey into a nightmarish world of murder, sex trafficking and revenge, in the company of aging hit man Roy.

Young woman Tilly falls for a local farmer. Despite hardship she perseveres with resilience and self-belief. Her journey takes her from poverty to happiness. True love grows unexpectedly over time. Tilly stays strong-willed through it all.

During WWII, several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects including the owners of the home, the staff, and the patients recovering there.

A man gets killed and his woman friend agrees to take on his surviving children. But as the decades started passing by, the children soon become aware of some painful secrets from the past.

In 1854 Newcastle, 10-year-old Millie's mother dies in a brothel, leaving her to be taken in by 'Raggie Aggie'. On the streets, spirited Millie faces the city's corrupting influences again.

Young housekeeper Emily navigates relationships with three men: employer Sep McGilby's tragic marriage plan, farmer Larry Birch's household, and Nick Stuart inheriting Birch's wife's farm, offering Emily a future.

Yorkshire in the 1880's: Joe Skinner marries Lily Whitmore, the woman he has long admired, to give a name to her illegitimate child by Lionel Fillmore, the opportunistic son of an impoverished aristocrat. Lionel, however, has his sights set on Victoria, the naive cousin of hard-working Bridget Mordaunt, and the wealth he wrongly assumes is hers. When Joe's shiftless brother Fred threatens his marriage plans, Lionel murders him and the blame falls on Joe. Bridget's warm regard for Joe sets her on a quest to prove his innocence, the pursuit of which reveals the sordid manipulations and evil that surround Lionel. Just when Lionel believes his crime will never be discovered, Douglas, his gentle sculptor brother finds the murder weapon---and the killer's identity.

While investigating unusual snakebite deaths in a rural village, a Victorian Scotland Yarder charms a cold-bloodied beauty.

Author Michael Arthate is struggling with writers block when he travels to Blackwood Manor, an isolated home outside of the small England town of Rothbury, Northumberland. Soon after moving in, he gets in way over his head when he digs into the house's horrible past and begins hearing scratching noised all around the house, and soon becomes more interested in the house rather than his writing.

A documentary showing aspects of long-disappeared rural life in Northumberland in 1953.

Two music students become trapped in a mythic past. To escape, return--and survive--they must master both historic and mythic Britain--in five time periods!

The Doctor, Vicki, and Steven Taylor, go to 1066 England, but something doesn't seem right including modern inventions like a Gramaphone and electricity. Could there be another time traveller?

When wealthy collector Brander Merton buys a Coptic chalice, he doesn't intend to meet the same fate as the relic's two previous owners. But after an arrow strikes him dead, Father Brown must expose the cup's supposed curse.

With Sara recuperating from her latest battle, Charlie starts to notice something might not be right with her; Constantine and Zari find themselves trapped in a 1910 boarding house; Ava, Gary and Rory take a trip.

For their first big commercial challenge, the 10 aspiring designers must redesign two show homes. Working in two teams of five, the designers are each given a different room to design but just two days to do so.

When the beaten body of wealthy German businessman is discovered in the harbour, Gently and Bacchus are forced to consider whether a barman's anti-German sentiments are a motive for murder.

After an unidentified badly burnt body is found near an RAF base in 1964, Gently works alongside Special Branch officers who suspect the victim was involved with the IRA.

The Legends try to stop an alien invasion by traveling to 2045 and having Zari perform in a TV talent show.

Time Team performs keyhole archaeology in a heavily developed area to locate the remains of an early, Anglo-Saxon monastery.

Tim Dunn explores London's first passenger railway - the London and Greenwich Railway, on the longest railway viaduct in Britain today. He also visits the Aln Valley Railway in Northumberland and the railways of the Czech Republic.

Kicking off the tour in Alnwick in Northumberland, a visit to a psychic artist brings laughter, tears - and the spirit of Michael Jackson. The terrified tourists then embark on a spine-chilling ghost hunt at the UK's most haunted castle.